Spanish dictionary update

The latest update to the Español-Inglés site's on-line Spanish dictionary adds a few 'everyday' words that were missing from the dictionary and contains translations of various new computing and technology-related terms such as whiteboard and wikify.

New sports vocabulary pages

Several pages have been added to the basic Spanish vocabulary section giving sports vocabulary. The vocab has been organised into several sections:

• Names of team games and ball games in Spanish: this includes your basic football etc;
• Names of combat sports and martial arts: this includes your judo, taekwondo etc (without entering into a debate about which of these is officially a martial art...)
• Names of winter and water sports covers Spanish names of a few sports such as canoeing, windsurfing...
• The sports phrases section gives some more general sprots vocabulary;
• Some specific Spanish terms for sportsmen and sportswomen (e.g. fútbol > futbolero) are included;
  
• Also included is a more specialised section on Spanish football vocabulary. If you'd like to see a similar specialised section on your favourite sport, drop me a line....

Note that a section on card games and board games in Spanish is also available.

Spanish dictionary update

The latest update to the English-Spanish dictionary includes translations for around 8,000 additional words, including a number of translations from Sofronio Calderón's 1915 Spanish-English-Tagalog dictionary (now out of copyright).

New Spanish vocabulary topics

Two new vocabulary topics have been added to the Basic Spanish Phrases section of the web site:

• Spanish computer vocabulary: including names of parts of a computer, plus phrases for describing computer-related activity such as checking e-mail, browsing the web etc.
• Making reservations in Spanish: vocabulary related to making a hotel, train reservation etc.

Spanish translation tool

An experimental automatic Spanish-English translation system has been added to the site. Like its French/English cousin, the tool is based on the Google Translate system and incorporates features such as extra orthographical correction, annotations on the resulting translation, and automatic submission of a variant to the translation system if it is detected that an alternative source sentence may give a more accurate translation.